Maria Elmquist

Maria Elmquist
Innovationsteknik
maria dot elmquist at chalmers dot se
+46 31 772 84 12

Presentation:

Maria Elmquist (formerly Backman) is an associate professor at the Department of Technology Management and Economics. She is also Head of the Division. Further, she is an affiliated researcher at the Centre de Gestion Scientifique at Mines ParisTech in Paris where she was a visiting researcher in 2004 and 2007-2008. She presented her PhD thesis on Prerequisites for innovative concepts in established R&D structures in 2007.

Her current academic research is mainly focused on the management of innovation, organization of R&D and innovation, the relation between design and innovation and processes for strategic change. Ongoing research includes projects on the development of innovation capabilities and the management of open innovation. She uses mainly qualitative methods (interviews, observation, interaction research …) and is used to working in close collaboration with industrial partners (according to a collaborative research approach) where the objective is to create knowledge that is relevant to both academics and practitioners and also actionable for the partners.

Her research has appeared in journals such as Research Policy, R&D Management and Creativity and Innovation Management and she has also written a book on concept car development. She is also a program director at Chalmers Professional Education.

Publications 2012

Börjesson, Sofia; Elmquist, Maria: Aiming at innovation: a case study of innovation capabilities in the Swedish defence industry. International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, 6 (2) pp. 188-201.

Börjesson, Sofia; Elmquist, Maria: Att utveckla innovationsförmåga i stora industriella företag – erfarenheter från Volvo Personvagnar. In Richtnér, A. and Frishammar J. (Eds.), Innovationsledning och kreativitet i svenska företag, Institute for Management of Innovation and Technology, pp. 19-29.

2011

Berglund, Henrik; Björkdahl, Joakim; Börjesson, Sofia; Elmquist, Maria; Hjerpe, Jonas; Sandström, Christian; Sjölander, Sören; Tryde, Anne Elerud; Wickenberg, Jan: CBIs studie om innovationsledning. Göteborg : Chalmers University of Technology.

Börjesson, Sofia; Elmquist, Maria: Developing Innovation Capabilities: A Longitudinal Study of a Project at Volvo Cars. Creativity and Innovation Management, 20 (3) pp. 171-184.

Elmquist, Maria; Fredberg, Tobias; Ollila, Susanne; Yström, Anna: Role Confusion in Open Innovation Intermediary Arenas. Collaborative production and innovation, Eds. Wittke, V;Hanekop, H;Spindler, G,

Ollila, Susanne; Elmquist, Maria: Managing Open Innovation: Exploring Challenges at the Interfaces of an Open Innovation Arena. Creativity and Innovation Management, 20 (4) pp. 273-283.

2010

Giannopoulou, Eleni; Yström, Anna; Ollila, Susanne; Elmquist, Maria; Fredberg, Tobias: Implications of openness: A study of (all) the growing literature on open innovation. Journal of Technology Management and Innovation, 5 (3) pp. 162-180.

Pohl, Hans; Elmquist, Maria: Radical innovation in a small firm – a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) development project at Volvo Cars. R&D Management , 40 (4) pp. 372-382.

Yström, Anna; Ollila, Susanne; Fredberg, Tobias; Elmquist, Maria: Communities of Practice for Open Innovation - Enabling Organizational Creativity?. ICICKM - 7th International Conference on Intellectual Capital & Knowledge Management, 11-12 Nov, Hong Kong,

2009

Adler, N; Elmquist, Maria; Norrgren, Flemming: The Challenge of Managing Boundary-Spanning Research Activities: Experiences from the Swedish Context: The challenge of managing boundary spanning research. Research Policy, 38 (7) pp. 1136-1149.

Aggeri, F.; Elmquist, Maria; Pohl, Hans: Managing learning in the automotive industry – the innovation race for electric vehicles. International Journal of Automotive Technology, 9 (2) pp. 123-147.

Elmquist, Maria; Fredberg, Tobias; Ollila, Susanne: Exploring the field of open innovation. European Journal of Innovation Management, 12 (3) pp. 326-345.

Elmquist, Maria; Fredberg, Tobias; Ollila, Susanne: Exploring the management of collaborative arenas from a platform perspective. IPDM Conference, Enschede, The Netherlands, June 7-9, 2009,

Elmquist, Maria; Fredberg, Tobias; Ollila, Susanne: Open Innovation - Forschung in Europa. IP Manager - Journal for the Knowledge Economy , 2009 (3) pp. 50-51.

Elmquist, Maria; Segrestin, B: Sustainable development through innovative design: lessons from the KCP method experimented with an automotive firm. International Journal of Automotive Technology Management, 9 (2) pp. 229-244.

Elmquist, Maria; Segrestin, B: The challenges of managing open innovation in highly innovative fields: exploring the use of the KCP method. European Academy of Management Conference, Liverpool, UK, May 11-14, 2009.,

Elmquist, Maria; Masson P, Le: The value of a failed R&D project: emerging evaluation criteria for innovation projects. R&D Management, 39 (2) pp. 139-152.

Elmquist, Maria; Fredberg, Tobias: Triangulating relations to explore openness of innovation. Academy of Management Conference, Chicago, August 2009,

Hordern, Thomas; Elmquist, Maria: The Role of Design Firms in Innovation: How Design Firms Contribute to the Innovative Capabilities of Core Firms. European Academy of Management Conference, Liverpool, UK, May 11-14, 2009.,

Pohl, Hans; Styhre, Alexander; Elmquist, Maria: The concept of interessement: The story of a power-split technology for hybrid electric vehicles. International journal of innovation management, (13 (1)) pp. 47-64.

2008

Aggeri, F.; Elmquist, Maria; Pohl, Hans: Managing innovation fields: another look at how eco-innovation capabilities are built in the automotive industry. Strategic Management Society, Köln, Germany, October 12-15, 2008,

Aggeri, F.; Elmquist, Maria; Pohl, Hans: Managing learning strategies in the automotive industry – the race for hybridization. Gerpisa Conference, Turino, Italy, June 18-20, 2008,

Börjesson, Sofia; Elmquist, Maria: Aiming at innovation in the Swedish defense industry – the difficulties of responding to disruptive market change in a technology driven context. Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities Conference, Köpenhamn, Denmark, April 28-30, 2008. ,

Elmquist, Maria; Segrestin, B: Alternative design strategies to combine environmental and economic sustainability: Lessons from an empirical experiment with an automotive firm. Gerpisa Conference, Turino, Italy, June 18-20, 2008,

Elmquist, Maria; Segrestin, B: Developing innovative capabilities: Lessons from an experimental process in the automotive industry using a design theory approach. European Academy of Management, Ljubljana, Slovenia, May 14-17, 2008,

Elmquist, Maria: Innovation and the limits of the selection logic: Introducing generative capacity as a complement to absorptive capacity. Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities Conference, Köpenhamn, Denmark, April 28-30, 2008,

Elmquist, Maria; Segrestin, B: Organizing open innovation in practice: a case study of an environmental innovation project in the automotive industry. International Product Development Management Conference, Hamburg, Germany, June 29-July 1, 2008.,

Fredberg, Tobias; Elmquist, Maria; Ollila, Susanne: Managing Open Innovation: Present Findings and Future Directions. Stockholm : Vinnova VR 2008:02. ISBN/ISSN: 978-91-85959-07-5

Hordern, Thomas; Elmquist, Maria: Design in innovation: how external design firms contribute to the development of the innovative capabilities of large firms. to be presented at the International Society for Professional Innovation Management Symposium, Singapore, December 14-17, 2008.,

Pohl, Hans; Elmquist, Maria: On the way to electric cars - a case study of a hybrid electric vehicle project at Volvo Cars. R&D Management Conference, Ottawa, Canada, June 17-20, 2008,

2007

Adler, Niclas; Elmquist, Maria; Frössevi, B; Fredberg, Tobias; Norrgren, Flemming: Loud killers and already-invented-here: managing change in professional organizations. the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, August 4-8, 2007.,

Elmquist, Maria: Enabling Innovation: Exploring the prerequisites for innovative concepts in R&D. Göteborg : Chalmers University of Technology. Diss. ISBN/ISSN: 978-91-7291-895-5

Elmquist, Maria; Segrestin, B: Towards a new logic for Front End management: From drug discovery to drug design in Pharmaceutical R&D. J. of Creativity and Innovation Management, 16 (2) pp. 106-120.

Elmquist, Maria: Vehicles for Innovation: the case of a neglected concept car project at Volvo Cars. Knowledge and Process Management , 14 (1) pp. 1-14.

Elmquist, Maria; Börjesson, Sofia; Setterberg, Sten: Working with concepts in the fuzzy front end: exploring the context for innovation for different types of concepts at Volvo Cars,. R&D Management , 37 (1) pp. 17-28.

Fredberg, Tobias; Elmquist, Maria; Ollila, Susanne: Managing Open Innovation: Present Findings and Future Directions,. Göteborg : Chalmers University of Technology.

2006

Backman, Maria: Beyond R&D failure or success: managing projects from an innovation process perspective. R&D Management Conference, Windermere, UK, July 7-9, 2006,

Börjesson, Sofia; Backman, Maria: Vehicles for attention creation - The case of a concept car at Volvo Cars. European Journal of Innovation Management, pp. 149-160.

2005

Backman, Maria: Projektledning i strålkastarljuset: en studie av Volvo YCC.

Backman, Maria; Börjesson, Sofia; Setterberg, Sten: Working with concepts in the fuzzy front end: exploring the context for innovation for different types of concepts at Volvo Cars. R&D Management,

Styhre, Alexander; Backman, Maria; Börjesson, Sofia: A gendered carnival? Project work at Volvo cars. Women in Management Review, 20 (2) pp. 96-106.

Styhre, Alexander; Backman, Maria; Börjesson, Sofia: The gendered machine: Concept car development at Volvo Car Corporation. Gender, Work and Organization, 12 (6) pp. 551-571.

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